Summer School

Intended for advanced graduate students and researchers who wish to be exposed to a wide spectrum of topics in continuous optimization, the Summer School at ICCOPT-II will be run on Saturday, August 11, 2007 and Sunday, August 12, 2007.

Registration fee for the Summer School will cover attendance at the lectures, lecture notes and meals. See the registration page to register and for fee details.

Qualified graduate students may apply for registration fee waiver, and students from weak currency countries may apply for partial travel cost reimbursement. Final commitment about the level of support will be made after the conference budget is finalized.

Students are also encouraged to use their laptops during the lectures for a hands-on experience. Wireless internet access and power outlets will be provided.

Two courses on the following topics will be given:

1. Saturday, August 11:
   Experimental Mathematics with Variational Applications
   Organisers:  Jon Borwein, David Bailey, Russell Luke
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   The goal of this course is to present a coherent variety of accessible examples of modern variational mathematics where intelligent computing plays a significant role and in doing so to highlight some of the key algorithms and to teach some of the key experimental approaches. [ More ]
   
   Schedule:
      8.00-  8.50 Registration and Breakfast
     8.50-  9.00 Opening remarks
     9.00-10.15 Experimental Mathematics: an Introduction - Borwein (Slides)
   10.15-10.45 Break
   10.45-12.00 Algorithms for Experimental Mathematics - Bailey (Slides)
   12.00-13.30 Lunch break
   13.30-14.45 Inverse Scattering: a Case Study in Experimental Mathematics - Luke (Slides)
   14.45-15.15 Break
   15.15-16.30 Further Variational Examples - Borwein (Slides)
   16.30-16.40 Concluding remarks
   
   18.00-20.00 Summer school banquet (Acclamation Bar&Grill, 191 James Street North)
   
   

2. Sunday, August 12:
   Grid-computing for optimization: modeling and solution
   Organisers: Michael Ferris, Jeff Linderoth, Stephen Wright

   Computational grids are computing platforms created by harnessing unused CPU cycles from a variety of distributedly-owned workstations and clusters. Condor is a free and popular software tool from which such federated computing platforms can be built. Grids can be very powerful, but they are difficult to use effectively. [ More ]



Schedule:
  8.00-  9.00 Registration and Breakfast
  9.00-11.00 An Introduction to the Computational Grid - Jeff Linderoth, Stephen Wright (Slides)
11.00-11.20 Coffee break
11.20-12.30 The Master-Worker Paradigm - Jeff Linderoth (Slides)
12.30-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-15.30 Grid Computing from a Modeling System (GAMS) - Michael Ferris (Slides)
15.30-16.00 Tea break
16.00-17.00 Stochastic Programming on a Grid - Stephen Wright (Slides)